Princess of the Blood

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Roxana Malaventura. Princess of the Blood

Roxana Malaventura. Princess of the Blood

Broker’s Note

I The Governor’s Study

II Of My State and Person

III The Brigantine Hecate

IV The Spanish Letter

V A False Flag

VI The Long Nines

VII No Common Pirate

VIII Alexandre le Petit

IX The Worst of Men

X The Port of Cayona

XI Erzulie Freda

XII La Casa Venganza

XIII Captivity

XIV The Limits of Chain

XV Hawke’s Command

XVI Blood and Molasses

XVII Torture, and Worse

XVIII Acts of Union

XIX A Brass-bound Chest

XX Punta Maisi

XXI Open Loyalty

XXII Godfrey’s Anabasis

XXIII The White Tower

XXIV Casa Dolores

XXV A Rising Breeze

XXVI Senyoreta Macchizeni

XXVII Confession

XXVIII A Princess by Name

XXIX To Dine in My Cabin

XXX Bonnet

XXXI Piraguas

XXXII Gunfire

XXXIII La Nuestra Señora del Carmen

XXXIV Royal Blood

XXXV Spoils

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It is Madam Malaventura’s custom to arrive without an appointment and deliver a completed manuscript, hand-written on odd paper and wrapped up in grubby oilskin. This, her latest, she forced into my hands on the doorstep of my own home before darting away as thought the Inquisition were at her heels, as, I suppose, it possibly was.

She, in her unique way, made certain demands regarding its publication and for my own safety I felt obliged to comply, though I must warn the reader that I really consider certain passages to be quite unsuitable.

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“Fetch everything from my bookcase that deals with the ruling houses of Europe,” I ordered, “family trees, treaties, marriages, obituaries, that sort of thing.”

“Past, present, or future?”

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